Graham Billingsley
Partner Emeritus
Orion Planning + Design

Graham Billingsley has significant experience covering 40 years of practice. He was educated in planning, landscape architecture, and architecture, and has practiced in all three fields. For 23 years Graham was in the public sector, first as chief planner for urban design with the City of Dallas, Texas. Graham left Dallas to become the land use director for Boulder County, a position he held for 18 years. Graham has developed land use codes, conducted studies or projects in comprehensive planning, urban design, downtown revitalization, demographic and economic analysis, opinion surveying, landscape architecture, architecture, historic preservation, process management and housing studies, and he has acted as an expert witness in numerous land use legal cases. Graham has spoken extensively on planning issues at national and state conferences. He is a previous President of the American Institute of Certified Planners, the professional institute of the American Planning Association.